Edward Morgan (1982) is a photographer, artist, storyteller and creative cowboy currently based in Vigo, Spain, working both nationally and internationally.

He also isn't sure whether to write this in third or first person...

I spent most of my childhood in Malawi, then some years in the UK before the best decision I never took brought me back to Africa, this time Swaziland. At nineteen I embarked upon my first "solo" adventure round Southern Africa in a 'bakkie' (pickup) with two friends. After that, I returned to the UK to study Biology at Bristol University and then left to travel through South America and tackle the existential crisis that comes with the loss of a family member and the pressing demand to know what you want to do in life. Unfortunately, these issues are difficult to solve in four months so on my return to the UK I decided to travel to Spain to teach English and found myself in a previously unknown part of Spain, Galicia, working as an English teacher.

Why am I telling you all this?

Because I'm human too. And I believe this is an essential aspect of my work.

My interest in photography began after a trip to India in late 2008. Until then I had hardly taken a photo. Occasionally I feel a bit of a fraud because, although the wonders of light and colour have since revealed themselves to me, I really see the camera more as a way of documenting the observations I make as I journey through life.

Hey, maybe that's what photography's all about.

Photography and Video work has taken me to and around Niger (complete with emergency landing in the Sahara), Jordan, India, Nepal, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Portugal, and I have been able to work with organisations as diverse as Save the Children, Clowns without Borders, Leonard Cheshire Disability as well as tiny initiatives such as ﻿Paleng﻿ (Place of Stories) in the heart of rural Lesotho, which is one of the most beautiful little projects I have ever had the privilege to work alongside.

The majority of the photographic work I do focuses on social and personal issues but I have filmed music videos in the mountains of Lesotho, dabbled in street art and in 2014 I began a more abstract line of photography called Azulejo Art, based on the Portuguese decorative tiles that fascinated me on a trip to Lisbon.

It is notoriously difficult to earn a living through photography and over the years I have found myself exploring a range of professions; storyteller, audiobook voice artist, waiter (an undervalued profession) and web designer. I am passionate about music and finally in 2014, I organised an Arts festival in my hometown, Vigo. The concept was simple; create a platform for the Arts by transforming bars and shops into mini-stages for a weekend.

In 2015 I travelled to Athens, Greece, on an impulse and started the 2Photographers project - a visual conversation between two photographers in two different environments within a limited period of time. The first project was entitled "A Tale of Two Cities: Athens & Berlin".